Posted on 01/17/2008 8:14:55 PM PST by NormsRevenge
I guess not since wages are down, homebuilding down, people and companies in debt, jobs disappearing and gas and food prices up. Something ugly comes our way.
Idiots running to stick their finger in the dike.
it won’t make up for what we’ve lost in the stock market or from lost pensions due to a company bankruptcy.....it won’t even pay for the huge oil run up.....
Meanwhile, over on the other side of the tracks, Joe Sixpack will get $800 for himself and $800 for his wife, despite having paid $0.00 in federal taxes in 2006. I will have to buy stock in beer and cigarette makers, to recover at least some portion of the subsequent spending spree.
Yes but the people who didn’t pay anything in are most likely to spend it and stimulate the economy unlike a person like me. I’ll either pay down my car faster or put it in a CD.
Well, it all started with Karl Marx and his strange ideas. Now we have been convinced that Jesus would steal your money and force you to give it to people that you don't want to help. That makes you a "nice" person. What that does is takes the pressure off the Mega churches to have to give to the poor so they can buy G5 jets for their pastors. That way they can fly to Washington to tell the government they need to steal more to give to the poor. Instead of the Church supporting the needy, we point them to the nearest welfare office.
I could go on for an hour, but you get the drift. We have become delusional.
I'll believe it when it's in the bank.
The REAL point of debate here, thanks.
I did see that! What are they smoking to have an idea like that?
Sailor: "Hey Captain, the boat has a leak and is taking on water! What shall we do?"
Captain: "I know - let's punch another hole in the side, that'll fix 'er!"
We can forget the undocumented Americans in our shadows. They deserve some of the largess as well!
Excellent point. Don't give one cent to anyone who is NOT paying taxes in the first place.
In my opinion, the energy and oil companies can’t wait until they can line their pockets with the money. They are just waiting to be able to run the price up higher. That is where it will go.
Look on the bright side.
You don't have to push 2 for English...... yet!
Right. Let's just turn the printing presses on and our problems will be gone. If it works in Zimbabwe it has to work here.
“If you can’t, you get a $0.50 rebate for candles”
—Candles destroy the earth! /s
Pure socialism, wealth redistribution, just like “free healthcare”. They’ve taken my money and now they are going to give it to those they deem worthy.
Has this happened before? I remember a tax rebate check in 2001 or before. Maybe? I tried to google, it but I have to get the kids going on their school work. Anyone remember?
See what I mean?
Oil Prices Rise As Economy Fears Ease
Friday January 18, 10:28 am ET
By John Wilen, AP Business Writer
Oil Prices Rise, Following Stock Markets Higher, As Fears of an Economic Slowdown Ease
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080118/oil_prices.html
Free to some, but not free to those of us who have paid it. If they want to give me back the money they have taken away from me at the point of a gun this year, I will take it back. It ain't "free money". It is my money they took away from me. I earned it. They took it way from me by force.
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